Saturday Morning OYs – September 21st, 2024


Recently surfaced by Dan Piraro for use in his Naked Cartoonist premium essay series.


And his Bizarro partner Wayno on his weekly blog posts sometimes chooses a panel and shows the changes he made to turn it into the strip version. In this case, the strip had to become a column.

For both versions, I had a mental-block kind of a problem, as the order of names in the caption does not agree with the placement of the characters in the drawing if taken left-to-right. No, there’s no reason they need to agree, so this is not a criticism, just a note on the mental twitch that left me studying them in puzzlement for a good minute. Anyone else?




We weren’t going to discuss it (Random retro LOLs, 2019 or before, Part 1)










This is maybe a bit of a CIDU now?


Also a bit unclear?


Editor’s recent photo

Gorilla with kitten

Saturday Morning OYs – March 25th, 2023



Almost a pun failure, as it is arguable the joke of her equivocation is already well-cemented in panel 3 and then the clues in panel 4 are just a waste. But probably it is also arguable that many a reader would miss the gag in panel 3 and there is a definite need for panel 4 …


And this dampens my hope of someday understanding what “fugue state” is or is not related to.





Yes, it’s the same David Mamet better known as a playwright.